Lake Worth: A TMDL Project for PCBs in Fish Tissue
County: Tarrant
Parameter: polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in fish tissue
River Basin: Trinity
Segment: 0807
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Lake Worth
Photograph courtesy of the
Fort Worth Water Department |
- Project Overview (PDF. Help with PDF.)
- Project Background
- TMDL for Lake Worth
- Implementation Plan
- For More Information
Project Background
Lake Worth (Segment 0807) is a 3,558-acre impoundment of the West Fork Trinity River located in northwest Tarrant County. The lake has a conservation capacity of approximately 37,000 acre-feet, and drains a 2,064 square-mile watershed. Water quality testing found that fish in Lake Worth (Segment 0807) are contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), resulting in an advisory to the public in 2002 to limit their consumption of fish caught in the lake.
The goal of this project is to reduce PCBs to levels that will make it safe to eat fish from the lake.
Return to topTMDL for Lake Worth
The goal of a TMDL is to restore the full use of a water body that has limited quality in relation to one or more of its uses. The TMDL defines an environmental target by determining the extent to which a certain pollutant must be reduced in order to attain and maintain the affected use. Based on this environmental target, the state develops an implementation plan to mitigate anthroprogenic sources of pollution within the watershed and restore full use of the water body.
This TMDL was adopted by the Commission on August 10, 2005. It was approved the the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on October 13, 2005, and is part of the state's Water Quality Management Plan.
- One Total Maximum Daily Load for Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in Fish Tissue in Lake Worth, Tarrant County (PDF. Help with PDF.)
- Response to Public Comment on the TMDL, June 2005 (PDF. Help with PDF.)
Implementation Plan
The Commission approved this I-Plan on August 23, 2006. The I-Plan is part of the state's Water Quality Management Plan.
- Implementation Plan for One Total Maximum Daily Load for Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in Fish Tissue in Lake Worth, Segment 0807 (PDF. Help with PDF.)
- Response to Public Comment on the Implementation Plan, July 2006 (PDF. Help with PDF.)
For More Information
For further information regarding the proposed TMDLs, please contact Roger Miranda, Project Manager, at 512/239-6278. Or e-mail us rmiranda@tceq.texas.gov and reference the Lake Worth PCB project in the subject line.
